[Tuesday, March 1, 2005] NASA's Robotic & Human Exploration of Mars Roadmap Committee assembled for its second meeting in Washington, DC on 8-9 February 2005.

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[Tuesday, March 1, 2005] NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate today issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). The CEV is the spacecraft that will carry astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit and to the moon by 2020.

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[Wednesday, March 2, 2005] On three consecutive days, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity accomplished unprecedented feats of martian motion, covering more total ground in that period than either Opportunity or its twin, Spirit, did in their first 70 days on Mars.

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[Friday, March 4, 2005] "ESA will be the first space agency to reach all planets in the inner solar system." That was the assurance of Piero Messina, speaking for ESA's Aurora Exploration Programme at the last Earth & Space Expo lunchtime seminar in Brussels.

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[Tuesday, March 8, 2005] Spirit's focus on sols 408 through 412 was the spectacular panorama from "Larry's Lookout." After completing that 4-sol effort, Spirit rolled to a nearby rock target called "Watchtower" and began examining it with tools on the robotic arm.

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[Monday, March 14, 2005] The last quarter of 2004 was largely a very productive period of science data taking, except for a 1-week period during which an anomaly with the Solid State Mass Memory prevented nominal operations, and some antenna problems towards end-December.

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[Monday, March 14, 2005] Spirit is in good health and is successfully using a new version of flight software. After completing an investigation of a rock dubbed "Watchtower," Spirit is returning to a soil area of interest informally labeled "Paso Robles."

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[Tuesday, March 15, 2005] A unique rover-based life detection system developed by Carnegie Mellon University scientists has found signs of life in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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[Wednesday, March 16, 2005] A group of scientists announced today that they identified habitats and microbial life using a rover in Chile's arid Atacama desert, one of the harshest environments on Earth, and that their findings may bode well for future missions to Mars.

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[Wednesday, March 16, 2005] NASA has suspended use of one of the mineral-identifying tools on the Opportunity Mars rover while experts troubleshoot a problem with getting data from the instrument, the robot's miniature thermal emission spectrometer.

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[Wednesday, March 16, 2005] Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according two new reports in the journal Nature.

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[Friday, March 18, 2005] After a long, sustained series of traverses (with a few stops along the way to see the sights) Opportunity has reached "Vostok Crater." The rover began a set of in-situ measurements on the soil and rock of Vostok.

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[Friday, March 18, 2005] This image, taken by MarsExpress, shows flow features most likely formed by glaciers or 'block' glaciers. This unusual 'hourglass'-shaped structure is located in Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin.

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[Tuesday, March 22, 2005] After some accumulated dust was blown off of Spirit's solar panels on sol 420 (March 9, 2005), the rover has been producing over 800 watt-hours of energy per sol, about twice as much as before the solar-array cleaning event.

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[Friday, March 25, 2005] "On behalf of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Executive Committee, I am reporting to you on the results from the MEPAG meeting held in Arlington, VA, on 16-17 February 2005."

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[Wednesday, March 30, 2005] Teaming Opportunity for a Mars Aerial Platform Scout Mission (Mars) NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) is performing a technical assessment to form the basis of a possible proposal for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Mars Scout 2011 opportunity.

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